Just A Few Excerpts From My Life...
Here You Will Find My Poetry (Jumbled Thoughts Usually Written In The Heart Of Volatile Emotion I Had No Other Way To Express), A Collab Or Two, Some Of My Favorite Poems/Poets, Original And/Or Favorite Quotes...A Few Blogs/Brief Essays: Free-Style, Words That Move Me; Strike A Chord In Me, And That I Believe Could Or Should Strike Something In Others...
Take Me In Slowly...I Swim The Depths Of The Soul...And I Am At Home There...
~A

Friday, September 01, 2006

WHEN I'M GONE

WHEN I'M GONE

(Verse I)When I sing or writeI want you to know my heartWhen I speak, give lightIt’s because I want to spark within you Something that is newIt’s really about youAll I am living forI’m just an open door

When I dance, performIt’s not just means to getting moreDon’t want to be clichéJust trying to say something old In a new wayTo make you seeYou have destinyDon’t be afraid to dreamTo live beyond your reach

(Chorus)When I’m goneI want to know that something I have doneHas changed a lifeMended a soulWhen I leavePlease know I gave you All that was given to meThe best of me:

(Refrain)Please remember when I’m doneJust wanted to touch everyone Then I’ll fade into my Song When I’m Gone

(Verse II)All that I’ve been throughI used to think it was about meAnd now all I doIt has humbled me enough to knowThat love is all there isIt’s as simple as thisNo amount of fameCould ever change that plan

Make no mistake, it’s trueI am not preaching or pretendingI’m only human, but whenI look into the mirror I can see the face of GodRising like the tideUrging me to sing truthIt’s what I was born to do

(Chorus)When I’m goneI want to know that something that I saidHas healed a heart Torn down a wall When I leavePlease know I gave you All that was given to meThe best of me:

(Refrain)Please remember when I’ve wonJust wanted to love everyone Then I’ll fade the Son When I’m Gone

(Bridge)When I’m goneI want to know something I left behind Will save a soulWhen my time is throughThere's nothing left to doI want to know my work is doneWhen my life is overAnd my spirit soarsI want to hear Him say well doneYou left a lightAnd it still shinesIn a world embracing darkness

(Chorus)When I’m goneI want to know that something that I saidHas changed a lifeMended a soulWhen I leavePlease know I gave you All that was given to meThe best of me:

I just thought I would share my purpose for living, for being, for manifesting, for dreaming, for doing, for having been created, for co-creating, and the truth of my purest thought of heart...

This IS my purpose.

Do you know yours???

What will be thought, said, done, accomplished, changed, brightened, healed, taught...as a result of your ever having existed here on Earth?

This song, this blog, is not an excercise in, or a celebration in or of death (though physical death is inevitable for us all, regardless of the discomfort that notion brings), but it is an exercise, an attempt to get you to think about your purpose...an exercise in LIFE and it's meaning.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

I've often heard it said that the BULK of the world's greatest songs, most beautiful art, cures for diseases, most prolific writings, and a host of world changing ideas, all reside in one place...

THE GRAVE...

Because a purpose filled life was not lived by those who were blessed with these gifts, ideas, philosophies, talents, that if put to use, might have changed the WORLD! A sad truth, isn't it?...

So tell me:

What will your legacy be???

Or do you plan on taking your contribution to the world, to life itself, with you to the grave?